Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Eli Wallach, a method actor who took the trouble to learn acting as well as method, as a crusading Puerto Rican lawyer in New York...
...they report in the Archives of Surgery, they attached stimulating electrodes (similar to the paste-on recording leads used in taking electrocardiograms) to the calves of patients undergoing long operations. A simple electrical pacemaker kept the muscles contracting and the blood flowing, clot-free. The Canadians believe that the method might save a lot of lives if enough surgeons...
Once More, With Feeling (by Harry Kurnitz) is a farcical assault on the world of music, not unlike the author's skirmish, in Reclining Figure, with the world of art. The method is to let fly now at chicanery and now at sham, and in between to go in for shenanigans. The central figure is an egomaniac orchestra conductor who, from shattering his musicians' fiddles and his trustees' feelings, can hardly find an orchestra to conduct. On one side he is Blanked by a shameless manager who ten times a day tries to save the day with...
...method of punishment would be to allow Pasternak to make the trip, receive the award, and then just refuse the author re-entrance into the Soviet Union. There could be little western indignation to this action, since it is comparable to the United States' treatment of Charlie Chaplin, Hayward observed. But to exile Pasternak would break a tradition established with Trotsky's demise, and more defamation of the Russian world might result from Pasternak's work...
Forget the Present. Worry about inflation was one of the factors sending the market skyward. There was also realization that lagging earnings can come back fast (see below). Thus, though stocks in historic terms are overpriced (18 times earnings for the industrials), many Wall Streeters are using a method to evaluate them which simply disregards the present. Said Edmund W. Tabell, top market analyst for Walston & Co.: "What an investor must do is take an average of earnings over the past five years [$32 for the industrials], measure it against projected 1959 earnings [now being quoted at a record...